I spend quite a lot of time on StackOverflow, both in terms of finding answers for something I need, and also for helping people out with their issues. One question I see quite a lot is around security permissions for creating files on the server. Usually these questions are for PHP, and as such I’m going to address this post as if PHP developers are sensible and deploy on a LAMP stack.
More often than not, I see the posts and they have something along the lines of the following:
I’ve set the permissions to 777 but it’s still not working
It makes me want to turn into the Hulk and smash things.